Roy Lichtenstein's comic book-inspired painting "Sleeping Girl," is expected to fetch up to $40 million when it is sold at auction in New York in May, Sotheby's said on Friday. IE 11 is not supported.

This lot is for one work from the One Cent Life portfolio by Walasse Ting. The "Girl" is Lichtenstein’s first pop print to use a blond girl, now considered the most desirable imagery by the artist.

Roy Lichtenstein's "Sleeping Girl" sold for nearly $45 million on Wednesday, setting a record for the pop artist at Sotheby's $267 million auction of postwar and contemporary art. The 1964 canvas ...

What was pop art pioneer Roy Lichtenstein doing before he created celebrated works such as “Look Mickey,” “Drowning Girl” and “Whaam!?” Quite a lot it turns out, as can be seen in a ...

Roy Lichtenstein's "Sleeping Girl" sold for nearly $45 million on Wednesday, setting a record for the pop artist at Sotheby's $267 million auction of postwar and contemporary art.

Roy Lichtenstein, "Sleeping Girl" There’s nothing sadder than a poor artist on a streetcorner with a cup in his hand and a sign around his neck that reads, “Will pencil for food.” ...

NEW YORK, N.Y.—A work by Roy Lichtenstein is going on the auction block in New York City. The presale estimate is up to $40 million. Sleeping Girl is from the estate of Beatrice and Phillip ...

At the Lichtenstein exhibition it’s harder to forget that you’re in a place of business. The bulk of the more than 50 works in “Roy Lichtenstein: Still Lifes” comes from unnamed private ...

Roy Lichtenstein adopted comic book visuals to paint this story from Genesis. ... Here, the young woman stammering her apology beneath a tree might be just a girl apologizing to her boyfriend.

In the summer of 1961 Lichtenstein embarked on a series of iconic images of women, taken directly from newspaper clippings and the romance comic books so prevalent in post-war America. The anonymity ...

Roy Lichtenstein's comic book-inspired painting "Sleeping Girl," is expected to fetch up to $40 million when it is sold at auction in New York in May, Sotheby's said on Friday.